[PLUG] Recommended Card Reader for Ubuntu 14

[David]

On 05/17/2016 04:10 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 05/17/2016 03:51 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 May 2016, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't work is the opposite of, "It just works," which is what most of
>>> my Linux experience is. More specifically in this case, I plug the
>>> reader with a card in it into a USB port. In Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint
>>> 13 after a very few seconds, a Nautilus (or whatever it is that Mint
>>> uses) window opens, and I can deal with the photos like any other files.
>>> On Ubuntu 14.04, "nothing happens" when I plug the card reader into a
>>> USB port.
>> Dick,
>>
>>      Oh. Okay. I don't use a GUI file manager so I always manually mount
>> drives.
>>
> lsusb shows: Bus 003 Device 020: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash
> Card Reader/Writer
>
> Haven't found any useful links related to this issue and Ubuntu 14.04.
> Plenty on Ubuntu 9, but one would think that would have made it into the
> later versions by now.
>

Try checking out this resolution from 2014:

<http://askubuntu.com/questions/499856/ubuntu-14-04-automatically-mount-usb-drive-without-clicking-on-it-manually>

Looks like a package might not be installed by default, or not with the 
global packages you selected at install.

dafr